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'''CAMPBELL'S ALLEMAND'''. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in the c. 1788 music manuscript book of Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Molyneaux, a flute player, was evidently an ensign in the British army at one time. | '''CAMPBELL'S ALLEMAND'''. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in the c. 1788 music manuscript book of Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Molyneaux, a flute player, was evidently an ensign in the British army at one time. The allemand also appears in print in James Campbell's '''A Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, &c.''' (Glasgow, 1796), with differences from from Glasgow publisher James Aird's version of some 13 years prior. Campbell's version is less technically demanding than is Aird's. | ||
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''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs'''), vol. II, 1785; No. 136, p. 50. | ''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs'''), vol. II, 1785; No. 136, p. 50. Campbell ('''Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, etc.'''), Glasgow, 1798. | ||
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CAMPBELL'S ALLEMAND. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in the c. 1788 music manuscript book of Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Molyneaux, a flute player, was evidently an ensign in the British army at one time. The allemand also appears in print in James Campbell's A Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, &c. (Glasgow, 1796), with differences from from Glasgow publisher James Aird's version of some 13 years prior. Campbell's version is less technically demanding than is Aird's.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 136, p. 50. Campbell (Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, etc.), Glasgow, 1798.
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